The thirty COM agents on strike and supported by the union UNI.T 978, continue their mobilization.
Tuesday July 20, the services of the Community were still blocked by about thirty agents. The meeting the day before seemed to suggest a breakthrough in the crisis, but the delegation representing the strikers did not wish to participate in the one scheduled for Tuesday. “Yesterday we started a discussion with six elected officials and the president but today we only saw two of the elected officials present yesterday, the DGS and the DGA. How to continue a discussion if the interlocutors change? »Explains Francilène Paines, Deputy Secretary General of UNI.T 978. All the more so since the strikers do not intend to negotiate with the DGS, which they accuse of discrimination and whose departure they demand, nor with the DGA of whom they question skills.
In ten days of strike, four negotiation meetings took place with the president of the COM. None resulted in an agreement although the governance of the COM believes that they have responded to most of the strikers' demands by mail. "We are and have always been open to discussion, despite the blockage" remarked Daniel Gibbs during a press conference held Tuesday at noon at the COM in the presence of six elected members of the majority.
However, these meetings only consist of a discussion around the first point of the negotiations, a precondition for the strikers to examine the 29 others, namely the departure of the DGS. It is therefore this first point which is always blocking. "I do not see how to work without a DGS" explains the president who returns, in addition to the series of challenges (Irma, strike CTOS, PPRN, Covid-19 ...) that his team had to face, on the dysfunctions within the COM which its mandate inherited and of the “unpopular but necessary reforms” which it is committed to make. Reforms recommended among others by the Court of Auditors. "As we had to deal with a multitude of emergencies, we understand that there could sometimes have been misunderstandings, frustrations, but we can always discuss and find solutions" insists the president who does not understand this blockage and wonders about the real interests of such a movement.
As for the local police station which, once renovated, was assigned to the DGS and its teams, triggering the mobilization, the president recalled having as soon as they expressed their dissatisfaction, proposed other solutions that they considered more suited to their workforce (10 agents of the territorial police against almost 40 today) and finally accepted that they recover it. “The shoemakers are the worst shod,” he argues to illustrate the fact that the Hôtel de la Collectivité damaged by Irma is the last building to be renovated because the priority was, among other things, for schools. The staff of the COM, which has also been reinforced, therefore lacks office space. “If everyone had room we wouldn't have had this discussion. We simply said to ourselves, here is the office that we have, which fits in "adds Valérie Damaseau who assures us that the elected officials are ready to sacrifice this term of office to leave a just organization, We apologize if some felt mistreated because it does not was never our intention. »Adds the first vice-president.
“We call for calm, reason and a real dialogue. If we could have caused a feeling of injustice or made mistakes, we will make sure to correct them. It is vital that the financial affairs department can continue to work, ”affirms Daniel Gibbs, who asks that the majority of COM agents who wish to work can access, in particular, the premises of this department. "There is still so much to do for this territory, it would be a shame to get stuck in such a situation".
Practical information :
Tuesday, the civil status services were open and elected officials could access their offices. On Wednesday, because of the Grand-Case festival, the services of the community were however closed. The citizens wishing to contact the civil status services for the urgent follow-up of their passport, identity card or any other civil status document, are invited to send their request by email to the following address: etat -civil@com-saint-martin.fr. Regarding vehicle registration documents and driving licenses: servicedestitres@com-saint-martin.fr
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